So … this is awkward. Someone is pretending to be me via email.
I’ve dealt with Instagram impersonators for years (until I got that blue checkmark — finally!), but this is my first time being impersonated through email.
Someone created a fake address and somehow scraped email addresses of my Instagram followers to send out scammy “exclusive trading opportunity” messages.
The fake emails are coming from paulapant.mail (at) gmail (dot) com, with subject lines like “Exclusive Opportunity: Copy My Trades for Free.”
That’s definitely NOT me — please don’t engage, reply, or click anything if you get one.
Real emails from me always come from [email protected] or [email protected], and they’ll always have an unsubscribe link at the bottom.
What we’re doing about it: We’ve reported this to Google and filed a complaint with the federal government’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. We’re on it.
The silver lining: I texted my 84-year-old dad to warn him about this scam. I fully expected panic or concern. I braced myself for a flurry of questions, possibly a lecture about ‘catching these criminals.’
Instead, I got the most perfectly dad response imaginable:
Peak dad energy right there 
Turn this into learning: Since we’re talking about scammers anyway, this might be a good time to mention the podcast interview I did with Dr. Eric Cole, the cybersecurity advisor under President Obama and security advisor to Bill Gates.
We did a deep dive on protecting yourself from scams, and one person told me it was “maybe the most useful video I’ve ever seen.”
Dr. Eric Cole is a former CIA hacker who talks through the most common attacks targeting your money.
We covered bank hacking, which is simpler than most people realize. All criminals need is your account number — printed on every check you write — and your password. With that information, they can often perform electronic fund transfers of up to 50 percent of your account balance without triggering alerts. Yikes.)
We talked about phishing scams, including fake Amazon emails. (Nothing against Amazon, but because they’re so big, they’re frequently spoofed.)
We covered the myriad of ways you could lose the contents of your cryptocurrency wallet. (It’s really the Wild West.)
He told the story of a couple in Ohio — school teachers who dreamed of buying a small farm — that lost their $1.3 million inheritance in a wire transfer scam.
If you want to learn how to protect your assets, watch our interview with Dr. Eric Cole on YouTube or listen to the podcast here.
Dr. Eric Cole talks about Cybersecurity
Meanwhile —
If you get any suspicious emails claiming to be from me, please forward them to [email protected] so we can keep track. Thank you!
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Charlie Sheen
Wearing ‘Hamburger Pants on Safari’ …
How I Slept With 47K Women, and Other Exploits
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Charlie Sheen breaks down his “Tiger Blood” days and his rowdy partying past — including revealing how he ended up sleeping with 47,000 women — and it turns out, he didn’t think much about it at the time!
The actor appeared on Wednesday’s “Impaulsive” podcast episode with Logan Paul, and cohost Mike Majlak was asked him whether “the degen” is just in his system, and how that recklessness drove him to take on so many wild things he experienced in life.
Charlie says there wasn’t one driving force behind his decisions … who he was going to hook up with or what drugs he decided to try.
Charlie broke it down individually, discussing his “headspace” encountering each incident … exposing himself to a particular lifestyle, advising … “Don’t wear hamburger pants on safari and not expect to be attacked by a lion.”
He later spoke about losing his virginity at 15 years old … revealing he simply hired a woman named Candy he found in the Yellow Pages.
As you know, the “Two and a Half Men” alum has lived a lot of life — much of which made headlines back in the day — and has been open about his drug use and sex addiction.
But he’s since settled down and is 8 years sober.
He discusses his journey from party animal to present parent of 5 in his memoir, “The Book of Sheen” and his 2-part Netflix documentary, “aka Charlie Sheen.”
His OnlyFans model daughter Sami Sheen found out she and her siblings were the reason he got sober thanks to the doc … and she posted an emotional video about it just a few weeks ago.
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]]>Jason Duggar and his wife, Maddie Duggar, opened up about why they are waiting to have children.
During an appearance on his sister Jinger Duggar and her husband Jeremy Vuolo’s “Jinger and Jeremy” podcast on Wednesday, August 13, Jason, 25, initially faked out his sister by pretending he and Maddie were expecting their first child.
“No, he does that to me all the time,” Maddie, 21, quickly clarified. “We are not expecting at all! We are not trying to be expecting.”
Jason then asked fans of the Duggars to “stop” saying the newlyweds were “trying to be expecting” because that’s not currently the case. (Jason and Maddie tied the knot at The Estate at Tennessee’s Sweetwater Creek in October 2024.)
“I’m trying to finish up school,” Maddie pointed out.
While the couple “love babies,” Maddie and Jason agreed that they want to enjoy being newlyweds before focusing on starting a family.
“We love kids. We get ‘baby fever,’” she admitted. “But, I want to wait and I want to just enjoy this time. I can always get pregnant later on, Lord willing. Right now, we just want to chill.”
Maddie said she felt it was important to devote enough time to settling into her marriage since she and Jason “are still getting to know each other.”
“We know each other, but we’re still getting to know each other [in the] first year of your marriage,” she said. “I’m going to wait until after school. I have one year of school left.”
Maddie and Jason Duggar on “Jinger & Jeremy” Podcast Courtesy ‘Jinger & Jeremy’ / Courtesy YouTube
Maddie continued, “I graduate next May and I don’t want to worry about a baby before then! I think we’ve got some time … Immediately, no babies. No babies at all. We just babysit and get humbled whenever we do babysit!”
Jeremy, 37, encouraged the young couple to “get [their] judgement” out now by watching “misbehaving children” in public places so they know what to expect when they do become parents.
“Say things like, ‘We would never let our kids do that,’ ‘yes, sir,’ ‘no, ma’am,’ that kind of stuff because once you have the babies, you won’t be able to do that anymore,” Jeremy warned them. “Enjoy it because when you have the babies, [it’s] a judgment-free zone.”
Jason concurred, “All that is out the window!”
Jason Duggar and Maddie Grace’s wedding marked a first for the Duggar family. Jeremy Vuolo revealed on the Wednesday, October 23, episode of his and Jinger Duggar’s podcast that the event included something that’s “never happened before” at a Duggar wedding: an open dance floor. “Hardly anybody was dancing,” Jinger, 30, shared. “So, there were […]
Earlier this year, Maddie addressed speculation that she was a “crazy fangirl” of the 19 Kids and Counting family before she got together with Jason.
“I am a fan of [Jason] now, but no, I was not a crazy fangirl,” she insisted in an April YouTube Q&A, before explaining: “My family did watch a few episodes, like, on a beach vacation randomly. So, I was on TikTok one day and I was scrolling along, and it was a video of where each of the Duggar kids is now. I was like, ‘Oh, I remember them. I’ve seen them before.’”
The two eventually connected over social media, with Jason developing feelings for Maddie partially because of their shared religious commitment.
“She loves the Lord and she’s, like, normal and that’s when it clicked,” Jason remembered.
“Jinger & Jeremy” releases new episodes every Wednesday.
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]]>Halle Berry’s ex-husband David Justice admitted that he questioned whether the Oscar winner was “the woman I want to have kids with” before their 1996 split.
“I was young and I had only, honestly, been in one relationship before her. My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast,” Justice, 59, explained during an appearance on the “All the Smoke” podcast on Thursday, August 7. “So, I’m looking at my mom and I’m a Midwest guy. So, in my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean.”
He went on, “Then I’m thinking, ‘OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?’ At that time, as a young guy, she don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem like motherly, and then we start having issues. I’ll say this, we never had any issues about any women, other men.”
Berry, 58, and the former Major League Baseball star got married on New Year’s Day in 1993. According to reports, the couple started dating when Berry saw Justice playing in an MTV celebrity baseball game and slipped her number to a reporter they both knew.
Halle Berry was surprised by some fans’ reactions to her steamy Mother’s Day Instagram video with her boyfriend, Van Hunt. “Other women got in their feelings and [said], ‘Was it right for her to be in her bed, talking about spinning with her man?’ Yes,” Berry, 58, said on the Wednesday, June 4, episode of […]
The couple’s whirlwind marriage was constant fodder for the press in the mid 1990s. Berry and Justice separated in February 1996 and ultimately finalized their divorce in June 1997.
During his podcast appearance, the former World Series champion confessed that he had second thoughts about getting engaged to Berry shortly after she “asked me to marry her after knowing me for five months.”
“I said OK, because I couldn’t say no. Who’s going to say no at that time?” Justice recalled. “I don’t know if my heart was really into it, but I didn’t want to make her feel bad and say no, you know, or [if] I was just in the moment.”
David Justice and Halle Berry. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Justice acknowledged that his and Berry’s relationship came at the worst possible time because both were building their careers, which meant they spent lots of time apart.
“We honestly probably could have made it if I knew about therapy. If we knew about therapy, we probably could have made it,” he said.
Us Weekly has reached out to Berry’s spokesperson for comment.
Following her relationship with Justice, Berry was married to Eric Benét between 2001 and 2005 and then to Olivier Martinez — with whom she shares son Maceo-Robert — from 2013 to 2016. The Catwoman actress welcomed daughter Nahla Ariela during her five-year relationship with Gabriel Aubry, and has been with musician Van Hunt since 2020.
Hunt revealed during a June 2025 appearance on NBC’s Today that he was still waiting for an answer after proposing to Berry. (The singer-songwriter was married once before, and has a son, but has not publicly disclosed details of that relationship.)
“Well, I’ve been married three times,” she pointed out on Today. “Van has been married once, and so no, we don’t feel like we have to get married to validate our love in any way. We don’t.”
The actress added, “But I think we will get married just because, out of the people I’ve been married to, this is the person I should have married. And I feel like I should, we should get married, but it’s not because we feel like we have to. I think it’s something that we would like to do just because we want that expression.”
Justice and his second wife, Rebecca Villalobo, share three children: David Jr., Dionisio, and Raquel. (The retired MLB player and Villalobo tied the knot in February 2001.)
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